The Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Annotated).: Contains biographical notes, illustrations and an easy to navigate index of chapters - http://www.kindle-free-books.com/frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus-annotated-contains-biographical-notes-illustrations-and-an-easy-to-navigate-index-of-chapters

Mary Shelley 1797-1851 English writer, Shelley had an unhappy childhood after her mother Mary Wollstonecraft died. Aged 16 she ran away to Europe with the poet Percy Bysshe. One summer they shared a house in Switzerland with othe poets and thinkers including Lord Byron. While there Mary wrote one of the most famous horror stories of al time, about a student called Frankenstein and the terrible monster that he created

#Frankenstein 1818 edition title page. Mary’s novel, though not her relationship with Percy Shelley, earned her father’s approval. He later wrote to her: “[Frankenstein] is the most wonderful work to have been written at twenty years of age that I have ever heard of. You are now five and twenty. And, most fortunately, you have pursued a course of reading, and cultivated your mind in a manner the most admirably adapted to make you a great and successful author.”